Do you dream of filling the walls of your home library with a fabulous book collection and riding past the packed shelves on your very own rolling library ladder? If the lack of square footage in your ...

Barbara has written professionally for more than two decades. In the past five years, she has specialized in creating real estate and home improvement content. Besides writing for Forbes Home, she ...

Each week, Mansion Global tackles a topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week, we explore how to make a library look at home in a ...

These interior designers have strategies for creating personal spaces for reading, whether it is in a dedicated room or a welcoming corner in your house. By Tim McKeough If you own a lot of books, ...

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It was the Roman scholar Marcus Tullius Cicero who said, "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." Here at AD, we tend to agree. When it comes to design luxuries, a personal ...

One would be hard-pressed to find a house without books. Besides providing the joys of reading, books are accessories that can personalize a room, dust a neutral space with color, and bring warmth and ...

"I had always yearned for a double-height library, since books are my life," wrote author Andrew Solomon in our September 2017 story about the restoration of his crumbling New York City townhouse, a ...

LA Times Studios may earn commission from purchases made through our links. Once upon a time, every room had a single identity: the dining room, the office, the den. But modern living has collapsed ...